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Grant Support Squad Renewal

EnactedGrant Request

Proposal Details

Author0xe6af…70e6
PublishedNov 08, 2022 20:56
Voting beginsNov 08, 2022 20:56
Voting endsNov 22, 2022 20:56
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Grant size

103,200 USD

Tier

Tier 5

Beneficiary

0x6584…c1e5

Description

The Grant Support Squad was created in June 2022 to support the grantees. During this period of time, this team was able to understand the grantees' needs, identified blockers and requests and provided solutions to the community. We have collaborated providing insights to the DAO Committee to [review Voting Power thresholds, the grant's categories and budget requests to the Grants Program](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=e2fbd710-426c-11ed-9eb2-21be7ab68113). We've classified the main issues from our grantees into four categories (Tech support, Financial Support, Promotion Support, and others). We wrote the [grant's FAQs](https://docs.decentraland.org/player/general/dao/overview/grants-faq/), to the DAO documentation to provide responses to recurrent questions. On the other hand, we have started to work on advisorships with the Decentraland Foundation's team to organize frequent calls for the 5 and 6 Tier Grants (platform category), and an [AskMeAnything sessions](https://decentraland.org/blog/announcements/introducing-decentraland-foundation-technical-ask-me-anything-sessions/) to connect the community with the Decentraland Foundation, based on 4 tech support topics (Catalyst, SDK, Explorer, and Dapps). These facilitations will begin in November 2022. Another frequent request from our grantees has been promotion. We hired a copywriter (Luis Mienville) to write the #Community Highlights category (with the help of the Decentraland Foundation’s MKT team) on the Decentraland official Blog . We have published 6 articles and our idea is to have more frequency, having Luis as an internal member of the team. We also encouraged the creation of the 2nd monthly Town Halls (on European timezone), to have more grantees showing their progress. Since September, we have an average of 3 grantees showing their progress in each Town Hall, who create videos and chat with the community. Since the beginning of our grant period, 20 projects were highlighted in TownHalls. We work with the Gov Facilitation Squad to spread the videos everytime we can in Social Media, Discord and DAO Newsletter. To take care of the community treasury, we have recommended to the DAO committee to revoke grants that were delayed, not delivering their grant projects, or unable to finish due to technical blockers, until they can deliver their commitment with the DAO. We helped to recover more than $565.842 to the DAO treasury during this 5 month period since the Grants Support Squad was created. [We are aware of the negative connotation of this action](https://mirror.xyz/0x0D109CD701946D4cFE1a687b80b59Ca80732fAC5/74SS0fLMzAYS2m3noukxdsfsA3TjmOi3o6fSqolTjpQ) and that this method is not the best. But today, it is the only tool that we have to make sure the funds are going to projects that nurture our community. To decentralize this decision making, we asked who would be the best entity to revoke grants and [the community decided](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=823c92e0-2ad2-11ed-ac99-5bece7edccd0) to create a Revocation Committee to address these matters. They will be the stewards of the DAO treasury. Last but not least, we have collaborated with the DAO Facilitation Squad and the DAO Governance Squad to provide them with continuous feedback and partner with them to generate synergy among our efforts to build transparency in the community.

Voting Power

02M4MRequired to pass11/0811/1211/1611/1811/22
YesNo

7 Comments

daoDec 13, 2022

Grant Support Squad Renewal This proposal has been ENACTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xbef99f5f55cf7cdb3a70998c57061b7e1386a9b0) Vesting Contract Address: 0x590be97D060D09c965Ec5b37FD7B8785A7b90A3B

yararasitaNov 23, 2022

Hi friends, Thank you so much for your comments, and for voting this grant favorably. We are really excited to continue working with you supporting community grants! There are a lot of learnings we have had during this first 6 month (which we'll share in our last update of this grant) and we are eager to build on that knowledge for this next period of renewal. Your comments and suggestions have been super valuable, so we thank you for your engagement and honesty along the way. Since the grant passed, and as we stated in the proposal, we are opening a call for hiring a new team member, and it would be awesome if this position is filled with someone from the community, so please if you'd like to join us, you can check out the job description and details for applying [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZaGchGSHasMCxqXG5KwCACV_FB0EZ1kIczzIj1MZTY/edit?usp=sharing) as it will be open for a few more days. See you around!

AaronLeuppNov 23, 2022

Happy this passed. Was Easy YES from me since they provided not only good value in auditing all grants but also aided the grant teams on feedback and ideas to help them see out there mission. I can say this now but ran into massive problems that could have compromised our progress and @palewins showed us a solution that helped us eliminate the friction instantly. Thanks again to him and everyone on this team.

daoNov 22, 2022

Grant Support Squad Renewal This proposal is now in status: PASSED. Voting Results: * Yes 99% 12,066,831 VP (89 votes) * No 1% 7,077 VP (4 votes)

MimsyNov 19, 2022

Hi, I just wanted to take a minute to say I love the direction you're heading in with the new grant request flow. I appreciate that the process has been broken into chunks which makes grantees really pay attention to each part instead of being able to just scroll by the sections of reading, answer the questions, and submit. The addition of page one of the flow, providing all the documentation up front and having users agree to the conditions before filling out the request, introduces more of a feeling of accountability that I think will help clarify expectations for grantees moving forward. I also think including a downloadable draft template on the first page is a super nice touch- some people might not even be aware of the draft stage option so I hope this encourages more to submit drafts first before tossing major proposals out there. Thanks for all the time you're putting into improving the grant process 🙂

yararasitaNov 09, 2022

Hi Tudamoon! Thank you for your questions. Validations can be added to the form. These are all requests we can make to de governance app team in the future. And yes! We could suggest the grantees to include a financial report. Maybe as part of this renewal we can create a taskforce to specifically work with grantees on how this final report might look like, and validate it with the community before implementing it as a requirement.

TudamoonNov 09, 2022

Thank you for submitting this! I was looking at the Figma and had a few questions: https://www.figma.com/file/tL5dgm0VKP4J1JgSaHraPz/New-Grant-Request-Flow?node-id=0%3A1 Would there be a way for any team members listed in 6c to automatically be added to number 7 so they can submit how much? Can we also require validation of number 7 to equal the total grant amount requested in 4a? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:16530"] We are also requesting to implement a Final Report for the grants finished, to understand how our grantees add value to Decentraland, and how our Grants program adds value to the community contributors. Measuring these impacts will help us understand the changes needed to make the Grants Program better in the future. [/quote] Thank you for this. Can this report also require to show where the funds actually went. So everything from the original grant is projections. For instance, sometimes agile approaches are necessary and a Grantee may have had to take $1k away from advertising and put that $1k towards development. Can it be required that they update in the final report of where the funds actually went?